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Thank you for posting this. In my own view, it must be admitted that there is a great deal of mystery surrounding the early days of Creation. There is some evidence that what we know as "time" can be stretched or compressed (depending on how you look at it) so that what appear to us to be enormous periods of time were actually very short periods of time.

It is patently clear that Evolution demands vast periods of time to "get everything done" - as if all that is needed is to tack on a few billion years here and there to account for this or that evolutionary process.

A common saying that describes a primary assumption of evolutionists is that if you put a bunch of monkeys in a room and set them in front of computer keyboards, eventually they will type out the Encyclopedia Britannica. This assumption is, I believe, wholly unsupportable.

In actuality, the monkeys will probably only be able to string a few words together, no matter how much time they are given. The vast, almost incomprehensible complexity that we see all around us cannot have come about "all by itself" - no matter how much time is allowed.

This is the central fallacy of Evolution. There is much we do not know about how the world came into being (I am always amused to see Evolutionists speak with confidence about precise sequences of events they imagine to have occurred billions of years ago). The simple, unanswerable truth, which any child instinctively (but not Bill Nye) knows, is that unfathomable complexity does not spontaneously arise.

If you come across some kind of unknown device lying on the path in the forest, do you pick it up and exclaim: "Amazing the confluence of just the right chemical elements and energy perhaps from a lightning strike at this very spot, along with enormous amounts of time for evolutionary development, which produced this interesting device!"

If you spouted such nonsense and truly believed it, you would be a candidate for the insane asylum. What you say is: "Wow, I wonder where this came from - who made this?" While I have more questions than answers, as a Christian I affirm with absolute confidence: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth..."

A common saying that describes a primary assumption of evolutionists is that if you put a bunch of monkeys in a room and set them in front of computer keyboards, eventually they will type out the Encyclopedia Britannica.

That does not come from evolutionary theory; that is probability theory and the Law of Large Numbers. And it is correct. Given enough time, a monkey striking random keys on a keyboard will produce War and Peace or some other recognizable piece of literature. Sure, it might take billions upon billions upon billions of years, but eventually it would happen *by pure chance* because, with a finite alphabet of 26 letters (English), the number of permutations of letters you can type out on, say, 1000 pages is also finite.

Sorry for the ramble; I love probability theory.

As a person of the Lutheran faith, I accept the tenant that “In the beginning God created the heavens and earth”. However, I often ask ‘Where did God come from and what was it like before He made these entities’.